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Commentaryen-usThe Senate District I represent is a long coastal district covering more than 80 miles of South Carolina’s coast. It runs from Bulls Bay in Charleston County, to Port Royal Sound in Beaufort County. Having extensively navigated the Atlantic coast from Oregon Inlet, North Carolina, to Dry Tortugas, Florida, I can attest it is the...]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTWith Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announcing on Friday that he won’t seek re-election in 2016, this may be a rare instance in which the retirement of an incumbent is a relief to his party. Now Democrats can run a fresh face unburdened by Reid’s record of political vilification, obstruction and disrespect for the...]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTPresident Barack Obama’s rhetorical assault on Benjamin Netanyahu last week was in part the product of pique. But it also set the stage for what could be another crockery-breaking bid by Obama for a foreign policy legacy, on a par with his opening to Cuba and would-be nuclear deal with Iran.]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTWASHINGTON — The apparently intentional downing of a Germanwings airliner by the co-pilot has us riveted, as commercial plane crashes usually do.]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:01:00 EST"Power has no face — no country. One has to be responsible to oneself of the power in one’s hand."]]>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTPresident Barack Obama has yet to meet with the new head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and didn’t see Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg last week, even though he was in Washington for three days. Stoltenberg’s office requested a meeting with Obama well in advance of the visit, but never heard anything from the...]]>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTSoutherners do love their guns as well as their politics. As far back as anybody still alive can remember, the South was considered "that part of the United States lying below the Smith and Wesson line." And, it’s still customary for some Southern men — black and white, and even women now — to tote...]]>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTWASHINGTON — An abscess of anger seems to gnaw at Hillary Clinton, but the reasons for her resentments remain unclear. The world’s oldest party, which governed the nation during two world wars and is the primary architect of America’s regulatory and redistributive state, is eager to give her its presidential...]]>Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTWASHINGTON — With Ted Cruz announcing and Rand Paul and Marco Rubio soon to follow, it’s time to start handicapping the horses and making enemies.]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTThe right to free speech means nothing if not the right to express ideas that other people might find offensive. Protecting the exercise of that right is essential to democratic government, as the world was reminded, horrifically, by the mass murder of Muhammad-mocking cartoonists at France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in January.]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTSo it looks deliberate. On Thursday morning, French prosecutors said their working theory is that the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the plane into the Alps on Tuesday.]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTMembers of Mount Pleasant Town Council and I introduced the framework for a new Town Growth Management Plan this week, one that we believe can help preserve quality of life here while providing balance between development and livability for residents.]]>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTThu, 26 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTThu, 26 Mar 2015 00:01:00 ESTWASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz says he wants to get rid of the Internal Revenue Service. This is a phenomenally bad idea, one so obviously wrongheaded it’s hard to believe he really means it.]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:01:00 EST